Thanks for the memories: The Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Milwaukee Organizing Committee, Viet Nam, the Draft, Race Riots, Assassinations, Music, Poetry, Sit-ins, Be-ins, Marches.

April 8, 2013

In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee embarked on a long-term, multi-departmental research project focused on the Avant Garde Coffeehouse, a local landmark and center of the folk/blues revival in Wisconsin from 1962 to 1968. There were places like this in other areas, but, in Wisconsin, none as important as the Avant Garde. It presented local [...]

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A wonderful dining experience… lunch with Tanya…

April 3, 2013

What more could one ask for? Warm sunlight… the company of one’s daughter… and Cafe Corazon serving delightfully fresh and flavorful food, wonderful service and and great value in a remarkable environment. This working class neighborhood also contains many memories… from my living in “Riverwest” as a student… and this being the neighborhood where my parents actually [...]

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May the thaw continue… please…

March 29, 2013

with temperatures reaching 45 degrees F… walking has become pleasant… again (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

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Friday: longing for the flowers

March 22, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

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Happiness arrives in the forms of shadow play and warm, sour dough bread

March 21, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux The most successful sourdough loaf, in the last year, came from following the San Francisco Sourdough Bread recipe in America’s Bread Book; by Mary Gubser; though I did cut quantities in half. Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

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A good moment…

March 19, 2013

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” – Eudora Welty (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

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the snow and ice continues…

March 5, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux

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Snow and ice… variations…

March 3, 2013

(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

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Back to Alterra on the Lake for another “photo meeting.”

February 27, 2013

Saturday morning: I met with Dotty, who’d requested some consultation on the “correct use of flash” for event and location photography. (click photographs for a larger view) One of the many demonstration photographs, we made that morning, to support the notions of: “1) getting the flash off the camera to properly sculpt the subject” and [...]

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Arrange meant

February 18, 2013

what does this mean? I meant to arrange… I meant to show… I meant to marvel… I meant to say… wood… water… life… wabi… wet… wonder… weather… winsome… wow… (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

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